• Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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    19 hours ago

    Men will literally go to a sycophantic predictive text model than go to an actual therapist who would actually help them.

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      18 hours ago

      Some therapists use AI themselves! Might as well skip the middle man?

      Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.

      “Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

      https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly/

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        18 hours ago

        Or just not go to therapists that use Machine Learning, if possible.

        It’s well documented those glorified text predictors make people feel and act worse.